Mike Graham: The BBC needs to be cut down to size

talkRADIO's Mike Graham has called for the BBC to be "cut down to size" as he predicted the licence fee would not survive the year.

Speaking to television critic Mike Ward, Mike said the licence fee was "not great value".

He said: "I'm paying something like £12-15 per month and I don't really use it that much."

Mr Ward also said that the corporation needs modernising.

"The problem is, that it soot of exists in that bubble - and we talk about the BBC bubble all the time - so few people in the BBC seem to understand that it has to be taken into the context of an ever-chenging wider world...it wasnts to carry on as if it's 10, 15, 20 years ago," he said.

It comes and BBC boss Lord Hall took the contrary position, saying he believed the licence fee is here to stay, despite government ideas of turning the broadcaster into a subscription service.